Blue

Where Blue comes from

From the German surname, Americanized from Blau or its French cognate bleu.
— Wiktionary's entry for Blue
  • English
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1968
    First appearance
    #2,576 among boys, 11 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1969
    Peak, #2,415
    13 babies named Blue — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1971
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #4,907.
  4. 2015
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from English, typically used in conjoined names like Bonnie Blue or Blue Bell.
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Blue hasn't yet.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.